5 Disappointing PPV Main Events in 2016
While Raw and Smackdown have had their off days in 2016, most pay-per-views this year have been solid. In some ways, this just goes to prove that the roster is stacked with phenomenal talent, but it is the writers, who haven’t been delivering the goods.
However, despite the wealth of talent in the current roster, there have been at least five pay-per-view main events this year, that have been sub par. In each one of them, we were promised competitive matches, but the eventual outcome was simply lacklustre. Here is our countdown of 5 pay-per-view main events that failed to live up to the hype.
#5 Randy Orton vs. Bray Wyatt (No Mercy 2016)
No Mercy had a pretty weird card, from top to bottom. Because of the U.S. Presidential debate, WWE had moved the explosive triple threat match for the WWE title (between AJ Styles, John Cena and Dean Ambrose), to the very start of the show! As one would expect, that match started the pay-per-view with style(s).
Soon after, there was a match-of-the-year candidate, ‘career vs. title’ contest between Dolph Ziggler and The Miz, that was almost impossible to follow; leaving Randy Orton and Bray Wyatt to close this fabulous show.
Their match, was alright, at best. It was slower than the rest of the matches on the card, and the crowd was already exhausted from the previous hard hitting encounters. As a consequence, nobody really got into the match, and it just ruined what had been a fabulous show until then.
Even the surprise return of Luke Harper did little to whet the appetite of fans. Somehow, the two men went from being enemies to friends and work far better as a tag team unit. Strange indeed!